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That’s because Kevin Fagan speaks for almost every Southern Californian who follow a Dodgers’ postseason run this time of year.

It may have been just one amidst the thousands of “Drabble” comic strips Fagan has drawn over the last 34 years, but the understated tribute to Vin Scully likely resonated so much so among Dodger fans it quickly found a spot of honor on many refrigerator doors, probably held up in place by an “L.A.” logo magnet.

“It’s the way I’ve watched Dodger playoff games for as long as I can remember,” said the 57-year-old father of three from his home in Mission Viejo. “The last time it happened (2009), I can remember how frustrating it got trying to listen to him on radio with the delay (matched up against the network TV video), so I just turned the TV off. I’d rather listen to him than watch with any other announcers.”

So this is a storyline Fagan has been sitting on for four years?

Not only that, consider he had to submit the strip six weeks before it actually published in some 200 papers across the nation, including all of those in the Los Angeles News Group.

That meant Fagan had to take a calculated risk in early September when he thought the Dodgers actually would be in the postseason. It ended up landing on the off day between Games 2 and 3 from the Dodgers-Braves National League Divisional Series on Saturday, Oct. 5.

“Talk about grace under pressure,” Scully said when told about how Fagan pulled that one off.

The Dodgers’ Hall of Fame broadcaster admitted he’s “overwhelmed when people say they turn the sound down, although I want them to know I can’t possibly try to do a radio call while looking at the television.

“(TBS) is doing their own thing and we’re not always on the same page, like it would be if we were doing our own simulcast (during the regular season). I have a monitor in the booth, but I can’t really try to match up with them.”

The programmers at KLAC-AM (570) have been accommodating to home viewers by putting the games on a seven-second delay, which matches up much better to how TBS is delivered on a delay to dish or cable systems. The only problem there is those listening to Scully while at Dodger Stadium hear him describe something they had seen a handful of seconds earlier.

Fagan also has accommodated Dodgers fans by being one himself, since he was a kid growing up in Inglewood and moved to Orange County as a teenager.

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“I was just thinking about when I was growing up. My parents were divorced, so my dad was no around as much as I’d have liked,” Fagan said. “My mom was a waitress who worked a lot, so I was often home a lot on my own. I would always listen to Vin doing the Dodger games, and really, not only did I learn about baseball, but I learned a lot of life lessons. I’ve come to realize what a great influence he has been in my life.”

Fagan remembers hearing how Scully could paraphrase a reference to the Gettysburg Address — about how how little will note nor long remember what transpired here today — and then go look it up to find out about its historical context.

Fagan recalled watching a Dodgers-Giants telecast from Candlestick park in the summer of 1969. Scully talked about the event about to take place the next day when “messers Armstrong, Aldren and Collins” were about to partake in the first lunar landing.

“He’s always been so different from other broadcasters. Not a homer, rooting for a team,” Fagan said. “He said later in an interview that he thought it made him a better salesman when he was doing commercials, because people would know he was sincere.

“There are so many other things I’ve learned just from hearing him talk about life. He said he doesn’t listen to other sportscasters call games because he didn’t subconsciously want to be influenced by them. I’ve been that way with my work. I don’t ignore other cartoonists, but I don’t go out of my way to watch other shows on TV or try to pick up on how other people do things because I don’t want to be accused of plagiarizing.

“It’s important to be yourself.”

The only other time Fagan said he’s taken a leap about including a Scully reference in a “Drabble” storyline was years ago when Ralph, the family father, was scanning the radio while in the car and stopped when he heard the words, “And a pleasant good evening to you, wherever you may be.”

A representative for Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley contacted Fagan about buying the original print to give to Scully as a birthday gift.

“I would have given it to him free, but they insisted,” said Fagan, noting that Scully sent him a note of thanks soon afterward.

Fagan happened to be watching a Dodgers game maybe 25 years ago, he said, and Scully saw “the wave” start gaining momentum in Dodger Stadium. Scully then began referencing a comic strip he had seen where two kids were trying to start a wave in church.

It happened to be a “Drabble” piece involving the characters Norman and Patrick.

“When I was a kid, I’d always dreamed of Vin describing my heroics on the baseball field,” Fagan said, “but that was just as good.”

Just as good is Fagan admitted his two sons also are big fans of Scully now as he’s always been, making it a generational appreciation.

“I wonder if Vin realizes that,” Fagan said. “I also wonder about when I was a kid, we could leave a game early on a weeknight knowing we’d hear Vin as we were driving home and we weren’t really missing anything. Nowadays, that doesn’t happen.

“Maybe it’s why people stay in the park until the end more often now?”

Next time he’s at the park, Scully will find the original copy of that Oct. 5 in his Dodger Stadium mailbox, as Fagan sent it to him.

“The thought that a highly talented cartoonist would take the time and effort to do that is very touching and deeply appreciated,” Scully said.